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Timaru Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 703, 31 January 1872, Page 4

Miscellaneous. riVE DYE!! DYE!!! ANY ONE CAN USE THEM. A Sixpenny Bottle of Magenta, Violet, &c. will Dye Twenty Yards of Ribbon m Ten Minutes. Ask or JUDSO N ' S SIMPLE DYES Magenta Green Canary Purple Mauve Orange Cerise Blue Violet Crimson Black Pink Scarlet Brown Price Sixpence per Bottle. These dyes will be found useful for dyeing articles of woollen or silk manufacture , also feathers, fibres, grasses, seaweed, ivory, bone, wood, willow shavings, paper; for tinting; photographs, and for illuminating. May be had of chemists m the United Kingdom and Colonies. Wholesale or patent medicine vendors. TO WORK BY HAND OR POWER. TTYDRAULIC PRESSES.— AU sizes, for -*--*- merchants and packers, stuff and cloth J finishers, printers, paper makers, oil millers, leather dressers, tobacco manufacturers, hop dealers, fiax spinners, thread manufacturers, and for all purpose requiring steady, powerful pressure. Manufactured by JOHN BINGLEY and CO., Harper-street Foundry, Kirkgate, Leeds. Hydraulic presses generally on hand. Prepared leathers, and all articles required for prompt execution of repairs and removals. Steam engines, mill-work, machinery, and all kinds of engineering and ironfounders work. RANSOMES & SIMS, IPSWICH AND LONDON, havebeen AWARDED the HIGHEST HONOURS conferred on any British or foreign manufacturer of Agricultural Machinery. AT THE UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION, PARIS, 1867, First Grand Prize and Gold Medal, the only Grand prize conferrred upon any exhibitor of Portable 1 Steam Engines and Thrashing Machines. At \ the Great International Competitive Trials of Implements at Paris, the following Prizes were awarded to Ransomes & Sims : — The 1 First Prize for best Portable Engine. The ■ first Prize for best Steam Thrashing Machine \ Two First Prizes for Ploughs. Four First ; Prizes and Six Second Prizes for Ploughs, i Horse Hoes, Chaff Cutters, and Mills. From ' the Royal Agricultural Society of England, July 1867 : — The First Prize for Steam > Thrashing Machine (Single Blast). The Prize ■ of £15 for Portable Steam Engine. CataloI gues and Drawings gratis on application to J RANSOMES & SIMS, IPSWICH AND f LONDON. 3 . s [Extract from page 80 of New Zealand r Gazette, No. 8, February 4, 1871.] j! Colonial Secretary's Office, t Wellington, 3rd February, 1871. 5 TN compliance with recommendations con- ■ r JL tamed m the Reports of the Flax Com- * mission Committee, and of the Joint Committee on Colonial Industries, to the effect - that " premiums not exceeding m tho whole f £500 should be grunted for the encouragement c of Sericulture m the Colony," aud that the - development of certain industrial pursuits , would often be best promoted by the offer of f a bonus on production, the following Rewards y are offered, subject to the under-mentioned s conditions : — li A bonus of 50 per cent, on the value li realized is offered for the production of the n first £1,000 worth of cocoons of the Silkworm 1 or eggs of the Silkworm produced m the 0 Colony, to be paid on quantities of not less 'i value than £50 or more than £100 produced 8 by any one person. " ! " To any person or persons who shall manuV facture, within the Colony, from New Zealand " flax:— 1 For the first 500 reams of Printing Paper, a a sum of £400 ; and a further sum of £250 for the first 500 reams of Packing Paper; c and the like sum for the first 10,000 yards of c Scrim-cloth suitable for covering flax bales. ? Conditions. 2 The required quantity of each article to be f completed before the 30th June, 1872. , The weight of each ream of printing paper s to be not less than 30 lbs., of each ream of - packing paper not less than 40 lbs., and of 1 each piece of scrim-cloth of 100 yards m length and double width, not less than . 30 lbs. 1 The rewards will be paid on the certificate of an ollicer to be appointed by the Governl ment that the above conditions have been . complied with. W. GISBORNE. 1 " - V ."' - ,7 3 - [ ' " POST-OFFICE SAVINGS' BANKS. * The following are the regulations regarding i the Post-office Savings' Banks, which have f been established at' Christchurch, Lyttelton, I Kaiapoi, Timaru, Akaroa, Waimate, Hoki--1 tika, and Greymouth : — 1. Interest at 4 per cent, per annum is i given on sums less than £200 ; at 3 per cent, per annum on sums over £200 and not exceeding £500 ; and m the same proportion for any shorter time on every complete £1 deposited ; no interest is allowed on more than £500. 2. Depositors m Post-office Savings' Banks have direct Government security for the prompt repayment of their money. ?. A depositor m any Post-office Bank can continue his deposits at any other, and can withdraw his money at that must convenient to him. 4. The strictest secrecy is observed with respect to the names of the depositors, and amounts of their deposits. 5. Married women may deposit money m Post-office Savings' Banks, and money so deposited will be repaid to the depositor, unless her husband gives notice, m writing, of marriage, and claims payment of deposits. 6. Money may b« deposited byoroa behalf of minora. Depositors over seven years i of age are treated as persons of full age, but minors under seven years of age cannot withi draw their deposits until they have reached the age of seven. 7. Applications to the chief office m each provhice on -the -business of- Post-office Savings' Banks, and the replies aent thereto, aro few from. c^rga for. poirtwto ,-v.-. .v> -.7: